CHARNOCK, John. An History of Marine Architecture ... derived chiefly from original manuscripts ..., London: for R. Faulder, G. G. and J. Robinson [and others], 1800-02, 3 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved additional title and 99 plates, including some aquatints, 19 folding (a few plates shaved at lower margin slightly affecting imprint, some offsetting, soil marks to gathering O in vol. III), contemporary blue half calf (worn). [Scott 474; Adams & Waters 337; Lowndes II, 422: "a valuable and esteemed work"; Maggs Nautica 1366: "the English shipbuilding classic"] (3)

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CHARNOCK, John. An History of Marine Architecture ... derived chiefly from original manuscripts ..., London: for R. Faulder, G. G. and J. Robinson [and others], 1800-02, 3 volumes, 4°, FIRST EDITION, engraved additional title and 99 plates, including some aquatints, 19 folding (a few plates shaved at lower margin slightly affecting imprint, some offsetting, soil marks to gathering O in vol. III), contemporary blue half calf (worn). [Scott 474; Adams & Waters 337; Lowndes II, 422: "a valuable and esteemed work"; Maggs Nautica 1366: "the English shipbuilding classic"] (3)

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In Maggs Nautica (1933) this work was priced at £52 10s. Although its relative value is probably not so high now, it is both remarkable for its scholarship and many magnificent plates, "depicting the art and history of shipbuilding, with views of all types of craft from the earliest periods." In this copy, the plate of "The Diamant, of 50 guns, French Ship of War," called for in vol. III, p. 116, has been bound into vol. II, opposite p. 117.

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